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Animated Lessons from a Fairy Tale

Posted by Thomas Ma on Friday, June 3, 2011, In : Soapbox

As I was watching Tangled, I cannot fathom some of the lessons that the original writers, The Grimm Brothers has written. The story of Rapunzel as she has been "kidnapped" by old crone, Gothel who wanted eternal beauty by Rapunzel's golden hair which has special powers. This is due to a golden flower earlier on which has the power to either make you beautiful or can heal you and Rapunzel's mother who was saved by this power and given birth to Rapunzel who has grown with this magical power of ...
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Pssh, Kids these days...

Posted by Thomas Ma on Sunday, April 24, 2011, In : Soapbox

When I was a kid, I grew up with mixed reactions on regards to games and television shows. Playing some games that are horribly bad to towards now, seeing negative reviews by contrast and feeling the awe-inspiring pathetic "Nostalgia" that people are plaguing my mind right now. Which I, in fact hate for their intolerance of new games in favour of retro games, plenty of "those" retro gamers started doing

Ahh.... Lynx, the dreadful memories, we have together.....

reviews and just overdosing with ...
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Perfection in Gaming? Really!?

Posted by Thomas Ma on Sunday, April 24, 2011, In : Soapbox

This engaging issue around the world of video games, specifically reviews in general for all major or non-major publications in general, are just opinionated. I considered this issue as difficult and can't understand why the people are giving out tens and why all series or franchises aren't perfect. While you probably will disagree with me, this is again, opinionated. This is just my perceptive on this issue from reflecting the past generations and now. While they are not absolutely true to o...